{"product_id":"the-black-lips-season-of-the-peach","title":"The Black Lips - Season Of The Peach","description":"\u003cp\u003eBlack Lips return with a brand-new studio album, Season Of The Peach, a 40-minute rock and roll odyssey, tripping through DIY genres where garage rock\u003cbr\u003emeets new wave pop, and disgruntled country shakes hands with epic western soundtracks.\u003cbr\u003eThe 14-track album captures the energy and spirit of early Black\u003cbr\u003eLips while simultaneously applying new approaches to songwriting.\u003cbr\u003eThe album is a musical merry-go-round, a journey featuring road-weary tales from the\u003cbr\u003eunderbelly of a lights-out America.\u003cbr\u003eIt’s bookended by “The Illusion” parts one and two: a barroom quest for hope, fear, and hate, thwarted at each turn by a\u003cbr\u003esense of resignation, “you reach for the sky \/ but it’s an illusion.” Elsewhere, “Wild One” plays out like a Morricone romp through another day in Hell.\u003cbr\u003eA mantra\u003cbr\u003efor the hungover, a skin-crawling lament in praise of the wild at heart.\u003cbr\u003e“Tippy Tongue” sees Black Lips take on 60s girl group soul, like The Shangri-Las and\u003cbr\u003eRonettes infiltrated by Jayne\/Wayne County, paying homage to Buddha Records.\u003cbr\u003eMeanwhile, “Kassandra” has a guitar sound scrubbed clean for a Sunday,\u003cbr\u003echiming its way through ever-spiralling salvos like The Chocolate Watchband with Zappa on vocals.\u003cbr\u003e“Zulu Saints” is an upbeat country honk, a good-time\u003cbr\u003ebrush with bravado, peppered with Cole on an incredulous radio phone-in show, looking for black-eyed peas and winning big on the slot machines.\u003cbr\u003eFor the recording sessions they holed up in the bucolic surroundings of drummer Oakley’s new Sound At Manor studio in the Catskills (the first album\u003cbr\u003erecorded there since Oakley built the studio in 2020).\u003cbr\u003eIn this idyllic setting, the band disconnected from city life and committed their music to analogue tape,\u003cbr\u003epart of their quest to embrace spontaneity and capture the energy of a live Black Lips show on record.\u003cbr\u003e“Simply masters in their field” NME\u003cbr\u003e“Dirty, raw and distinctly alive” Paste\u003cbr\u003e“A wonderful new chapter” The Line Of Best Fit.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"FIRE RECORDS","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":53206468854087,"sku":"TRI-64853","price":29.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":53206469280071,"sku":"TRI-64854","price":16.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0931\/9779\/5655\/files\/00b9e2c820b79e41bf8ca8aace34d0e1_7a86419f-43fe-4600-afd5-c978b187037e.jpg?v=1769371747","url":"https:\/\/towerrecords.ie\/products\/the-black-lips-season-of-the-peach","provider":"Tower Records Dublin Ireland","version":"1.0","type":"link"}